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It's Radgy Time...

Andy Rivers Posted by Andy Rivers at 07:41 AM on June 22, 2009 Comments comments (0)

Just thought I’d make you all aware that the lads and lasses at Byker Books have brought out another corking collection of stories for your delectation:-

 

Radgepacket – Tales From The Inner Cities Volume Three

 

The eagerly awaited third volume in the ‘Radgepacket – Tales from the Inner Cities’ series will be launched onto an unsuspecting world on July 11th. Radgepacket Three continues the Byker Books quest to bring you the best in ‘unsigned and unhinged’ British talent as well as the more established names. We’ve got stories of giant rats, vigilantes, teenage car thieves and bent politicians as well as many more. If you like blood and guts, sex and drugs or gangsters and thugs then there’s something in here for you.

 

Come on…GET RADGE!

 

Available from selected Borders stores, Amazon and other online bookshops and www.bykerbooks.co.uk

 

I’m not in it – they really can’t afford me these days – but I think it’s still worth £5.99 of anyone’s beer tokens – go on man you know you want to…actually, here’s the Amazon link as well, could I make it any easier????

 

Radge3

 

Everything is Average Nowadays - Part 9

Andy Rivers Posted by Andy Rivers at 07:38 AM on March 11, 2009 Comments comments (0)

Politicians who are getting all hysterical about Fred Goodwin’s gold plated pension deal and are demanding that he ‘does the right thing’ – don’t make me laugh you amoral, corrupt, grasping cunts, the hypocrisy emanating from you self righteous fuckers is sickening; Mike Ashley – we’re going down, you caused it, don’t try to convince us otherwise you nepotistic fat wanker; Chris Moyles – no particular reason this time I just fucking hate him; Cats that drag dead birds into your garden and leave them there – hope the fox gets you and does the same you little twats; Regional news that isn’t actually about your region – what’s that all about; Dennis Wise – Mike Ashleys gay lover; Agent Million from the Premium Bonds – he appears to have lost my address; People on Facebook who earnestly join every ‘cause’ going and feel the need to send these ‘causes’ on to me – fuck off, I don’t care; Whoever decided the Euro should be worth the same as the pound thus fucking up my little trip to Berlin; Joe Kinnear – Mike Ashleys dad; Whoever ‘slimed’ Peter Mandelson – she should have fucking punched him, missed opportunity there methinks; Derek Llambias – Mike Ashley’s bookie; All the left wing worthy’s who are jumping on the ‘Slumdog Millionaire is just poverty porn and it’s wrong’ bandwagon – fuck off it’s a good film and you’re just trying to be alternative, you sad, polo neck jumper wearing, ex-student, fuckwits; Whoever invented gardening – tosspot.

 

 

Aah – that’s better. Carry on.  

 

Published...Again...

Andy Rivers Posted by Andy Rivers at 01:38 PM on November 13, 2008 Comments comments (0)

Afternoon Boys and Girls,

I'm being featured in a forthcoming anthology 'Radgepacket - Tales from the Inner Cities' available from next week (17/11/08) from Byker Books. Take a look at their website - they're a bit different and well worth a look.

The book itself is only Ł5.99 - which includes postage and packing - and is a bit of a bargain. It features a number of unknown authors and a well known one (Danny King) and is endorsed by a number of people, one of whom says this :-

Byker Books have mustered a cabal of writers who write like people possessed about people possessed. Tales from the Inner Cities wades into the British underclass with tight clenched fists and eyes wide open.

 Pick up if you?re hard enough ? put it down if you can.?

Matt Nesbitt, Oxfordshire Press

So there you have it, good value and I'm in it - what more could you want? Get it in ya stocking!

Byker Books

I wonder why...he's the greatest dancer...

Andy Rivers Posted by Andy Rivers at 08:24 AM on October 16, 2008 Comments comments (0)
Firstly apologies to everyone because it's been a while but this is because computers are the spawn of satan and hate me - no other reason.

Now, on with the nonsense. There's some canny stuff happening at the minute. Byker Books debut publication ?Radgepacket ? Tales from the Inner Cities? is apparently going to be on sale via their website from the middle of next month and, not only am I going to be in it but they?ve made me the first story which obviously means I?m the best!

Anyway, here?s a link so you can read the blurb they're putting out with it.

Radgepacket - Tales from the Inner Cities


I was in Exmouth at the weekend (I didn?t realise the South had nice bits) and went clubbing at 'The Q Club' it was a bit charva-like but, just so you know, I?m still the best dancer like.

On an unrelated note I noticed Cabinet Ministers Ed Balls and his partner/wife/accomplice Yvette Cooper were cleared of any mispropriety by the Commons Standards Committee in relation to the expenses they claim on their various houses.

Obviously as they have been cleared of any wrongdoing by their fellow politicians who are also doing the same thing and would rather it could all be swept under the carpet then they are whiter than white aren?t they?

This country?s fucked.

North - East...enders.

Andy Rivers Posted by Andy Rivers at 09:12 AM on September 12, 2008 Comments comments (0)

I would just like to put to bed the scurrilous rumours that Newcastle United are to be renamed Walford FC, the catering staff will only be serving Jellied eels from now on, the team will be running out to ?knees up Mother Brown?  and that Shearers Bar will be re-named ?The Queen Vic?.

 

This is obviously nonsense?everyone knows that the caterers will also be doing Pie and Mash?

 

Good luck to all the protesters, shouters, boycotters and heed the balls in Newcastle tomorrow ? let that fat cunt and his evil little sidekick know exactly what you think of them.

 

Ps ? Of course I wouldn?t for one second advocate violence or lawless behaviour on the aforementioned obese one and his cock sucking dwarf buddy but if it happens then rest assured I?ll be the first one to piss my self laughing!

Arsenal - Up the Bummers...

Andy Rivers Posted by Andy Rivers at 08:25 AM on September 02, 2008 Comments comments (0)

Bit bored with this now like.

 

At the weekend Mike Ashley was spoken to by the police for committing the heinous crime of drinking a pint. Apparently someone complained ? what type of sad, whinging, spotty virgin moans to the bizzies when his team is already three nil up and cruising to victory. What kind of sad, unfulfilled, frustrating life must this cunt lead that makes him derive satisfaction from crying to the law that someone is trying to drown his sorrows. Fucking Arsehole.

 

Mick Dennis of The Express has also continued his one man sniping crusade against Newcastle when he commented on the incident. For those of you who don?t know Mr Dennis has been slagging off Keegan non-stop since his arrival back at the Toon but as we?ve made a decent start he?s been strangely quiet, only crawling out from under his stone to mention this.

 

Joey Barton (again), comes on and gets booed by the whole middle class Arsenal set. The same Arsenal mob who consider Tony Adams a legend ? that?s the Tony Adams who went to jail for drink driving and put his car through someone?s garden wall when pissed. Still that?s alright isn?t it ? he?s a London based player.

 

Joey then makes a legitimate tackle which results in him being targeted by the whole Arsenal team until one of them (Samir Nasri)  boots him from behind (a tactic used by countless frenchmen over the years I understand ? soft cunts!). You?d think the sporting press, particularly in the light of the new ?respect? campaign would make something of this ? oh hold on though, Nasri plays for a London team doesn?t he and those nasty oiks from up North deserve everything they get.

 

Not that I?m narked or anything like?

 

Ps and Arsenal played like fucking Brazil that?s not fair either?

Taxing questions...

Andy Rivers Posted by Andy Rivers at 12:46 AM on August 27, 2008 Comments comments (0)
How was your bank holiday then? I hurt my back at the weekend (it hurts loads but I?m from Byker and therefore hard as nails so I don?t say nowt?) but unfortunately due to various staffing issues I?ve had to come to work this week rather than resting it so I?m in a right mood?

With that in mind I?m going to keep this brief (gotta do me stretches like don?t ask?) and ask just one question.

Labour ministers are calling for a ?windfall tax? on the energy firms, the rationale being that they?re making a fortune through increased prices, in order to spend the said tax on ?helping those in fuel poverty?.

So, will they also be calling for the same tax on the government who are making an absolute fortune through fuel tax (the highest in Europe I believe ? do we get any benefit from being in the EU?) in order to assist those who are struggling with big price rises on everything caused by the price of petrol and diesel?

Or, as I suspect will happen, will they keep quiet about that and just put their expenses claims in as normal and live the good life whilst we all struggle to heat our homes, drive our cars and put food on the table?

Don?t even know why I?m asking actually ? they?re all a bunch of self serving, greedy, hypocritical fuckers with more in common with the grasping, everyone else will pay for me, chav class than they care to realise.

Bunch of arse all of ?em.

Last night a DJ saved my life...

Andy Rivers Posted by Andy Rivers at 09:05 AM on August 20, 2008 Comments comments (0)
Right, forgive me but I?m about to go off on one now.

Loads of important world events happened on Monday/ Tuesday, for instance :-

? The Pakistani president resigned ? a worrying development where terrorism is concerned
? Our Olympians accrued loads more medals
? The Russians were leaving Georgia and then they weren?t then they were again ? implications for world peace/war are massive
? Our economy is still fucked and people are at the point of existing rather than living

With this in mind what do you think the lead story on some downmarket, super soaraway, tabloids and, more to the point, our national radio station was?

I?ll tell you.

?Jade Goody has cancer?

What?

?You know man Jade Goody, ignorant, illiterate, racist embarrassment to our whole nation, famous only for being stupid and getting her fanny out on television.?

?Oh her ? why?s her doctor told everyone then? Surely that?s something you?d keep private??

?Well her doctor didn?t tell her. She was informed she had it whilst in the diary room of the Indian version of Big Brother by her agent who then told the tabloids?.

?Oh fuck off.?

Now If Ms goody has cancer then she has my sympathy. I know people who?ve beaten it, people who still have it and sadly I?ve known people who couldn?t fight it. None of them made the news on a radio station that I am forced to pay for and they were/are all ten times better people than she is but that?s not my point.

Why on earth would it be headline news all fucking day? Is there nothing else worthy of being the main headline on a national radio station in a supposedly civilised, first world country? Has the national IQ been so dumbed down that the wellbeing of an anonymous wannabe is crucial to our morale?

This country?s fucked and frankly, it?s the media that?s providing the KY Jelly!

Ps ? as well as that I also had to endure Chris Moyles doing his ?hilarious? Geordie impersonation again yesterday, it was almost as funny as the time he was on ?Never mind the Buzzocks? and stayed very quiet when confronted with real funny people. I recall him crying to the papers afterwards that they?d picked on him.

Just like school Chris eh? It?s always the fat, ugly prick that gets bullied?

PPs - Some fucker's getting it today like....

Back in the game...

Andy Rivers Posted by Andy Rivers at 10:17 AM on August 14, 2008 Comments comments (0)
What day is it?

Thursday?

Yeh I feel better now ? only took me five days to get over something that lasted for three. Still, least said about Prague the better, mind, you know what they say.

?What goes on tour ?..ends up on Facebook!?

Anyway, I came back to find out that one of my stories, that I?d won a competition on Byker Books with, had been published in top Newcastle fanzine True Faith and I?m now famous amongst the toon faithful.

One eagle eyed associate of mine pointed out that he?d read the said story on my website already but hey, that?s life eh?

Anyway, nowt else on the writing front, I got a three round hiding on my return to the gym last night but did rally for long enough to get some telling blows in during a toe to toe exchange (never underestimate the speed of my hands..) and I?ve got some new books to read by David Peace that aren?t even out yet!.

Adieu

Prague...Prague...Prague...Prague

Andy Rivers Posted by Andy Rivers at 03:21 AM on August 07, 2008 Comments comments (0)

Right then, couple of bits today.

I'm off to Prague on a big boys beano tomorrow - I've heard they have lovely architecture, wonderful Art Galleries and super museums, I absolutely guarantee I won't see any of them.

Tried out my new gumshield last night during an intense five round beating - I'm happy to report that none of my teeth burst through my lips or cheeks so well done to the Tooth Factory in the toon for that - I'm also pleased to report that my opponent, a filthy old school slugger, suffered severe bruising...to his knuckles - that'll teach him.

No writing news other than one of my stories (Blagger) is going to feature in the debut anthology from 'Byker Books' sometime in November - I'll let you know when so you can buy a copy and I'll sign it for you. Then when I'm a multi billionaire celebrity author you can claim to the News of The World that I slept with you and make yourself fifty grand - everyone's a winner.

Have I mentioned I'm going to Prague in a minute?

Have a good un.

Ps - Did you notice I didn't swear today? Soon put that right - FUCK!


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